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When emotion overwhelms you, you have two choices; let it eat away at you slowly, each and every day, or attempt to purge it from your memory. Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s way of preventing himself from going insane and parting with his overwhelming emotions. Although I have not first-handedly experienced traumatizing events in the same way Krakauer has, I relate to the want, or need, to dispose of extreme thoughts through art. Contrastingly, I often part with my emotions through vague paintings only I can accurately decipher, while Krakauer parts with his emotions through a twenty one chapter novel in which he gives the readers nearly excessive details about not only his emotions, but also the emotions and hardships of others. While reading

The author’s narrative, ripe with horrifying descriptions, is nonetheless told with compassion appealing to the emotions of the audience

The theme that one cannot have happiness without pain is expressed with the literary elements foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery in

Society often fail to understand and see the mental pain that individuals carry throughout their lives. Some people bear its burden, while others suffer greatly because of it, to the point of choosing self-destruction. The narrators from “The Gargoyle” (Davidson) and “Walk to Morning” (Boyden) both experience this pain that ultimately sets them on a course to a deep pit. They survive their near-deaths and later encounter unique life-changing people. As a result, they become better individuals.

It is easy to get caught up in one’s own world when life picks up the pace and everything seems hectic; along the way decisions are made unconsciously to let go of people who were once held dear. It is easy to be torn between what appears to be important and what is trivial. Amidst the mess that is life, various things contend for one’s attention, and what really matters might not be so clear. In “The Last Rung on the Ladder” the guilt that consumes the narrator over his sister’s suicide becomes an essential part of his identity even as he tries to adjust to her loss. In “Sanctuary” Jim Hammer is in the very first stages of realizing he is guilty of his friend’s death, and the responsibility has not yet taken its toll on him. The history and experiences of one’s identity affect the way an individual reacts to guilt, if one has never understood the impact that relationships have upon past and present selves then it is difficult to fully digest the impact of his/her actions.

To ease one’s pain, humans will do anything to escape the negative emotions they feel, even if it is not healthy. In the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, he effectively shows how Saul faces a journey of undoing years of isolation after his traditions and values are ignored by St. Jeromes, a residential school. This experience causes him a large amount of emotional pain. Therefore, Saul copes with his problems by escaping reality itself so he does not need to dwell on his negative emotions.

Everyone knows what it is like to have a day that completely drains them. One comes home after a long, tough day and just wants to collapse at the door. Life is full of adjunct things that complicate day to day things, and more than anything, make life a pain in the neck. These little specks of adversity are like the an ice sculptors chisel and hammer. They can change a person and make them into something amazing, or they can cause them to shatter. Kevin Conroy said that, “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” Adversity is a part of everyone’s life in some way. How do the books Night by Elie Wiesel and tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom show adversity in the lives

people like Cratchet’s family suffer, and he feels like, thanks to him, there is no happiness. In the

In the text, “Sonny’s Blues”, by James Baldwin, the narrator and his brother, Sonny, struggle through life and are constantly facing some sort of suffering. The narrator suffers through witnessing the downward spiral of his brother into drug addiction and the loss of his daughter while Sonny suffers through drug addiction, the battle that ensues afterward in his attempt to get back on his feet, and the discord in the relationship with his brother. Baldwin uses strong diction in order to show suffering as an inevitable part of being human. Baldwin wields careful diction to demonstrate how suffering is an inescapable piece of possessing humanity.

There is one feeling that unfortunately everyone will deal with at some point in their life. That feeling is grief. Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, is about grief and reveals that everyone deals with grief differently. Brady Park’s is a regular thirteen year old boy who was living an average lifestyle until Ben, a younger boy that Brady was close to died. Brady showed his grief by blaming it on himself and being upset for what had happened. Ben’s mom, Mrs. DiAngelo, was on the kayak when it sank, but she was fine and got carried back up to the surface by the life vest.

The narrators’ approval is being held hostage by this personal internal conflict with his own beliefs which allow his “suffering” to

The theme of suffering can come in numerous varieties; under categories both physical and emotional. Suffering is presented as a key concept in ‘Othello’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’. All three texts explore many aspects of suffering in parts, however the most obvious and concentrated facet leans towards the psychological aspect rather then the physical side. In the three chosen texts many of the characters suffer from some sort of emotional trauma. Psychological suffering and distress is a major topic in all three chosen texts as the authors use this ailment in order to drive the storyline forward,

Over time humans have developed different methods for coping with hardships. Humor was developed as a way to cope with stressful situations or sadness. Art provided a way for people to escape the harsh reality they lived in to one of their own creation. The Escapism Movement in America following the Great Depression shows how people will take to various forms of art to distract themselves from the harsh reality of their situation. In Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, the characters find outlets from their war-torn country through the use of comedy and several artistic mediums. From Deshi and Maali’s use of humor to cope with the duress of the hospital to Khassan’s lifelong work on his novel, the character’s in this novel

Has anyone lived a life without misfortune? Doubtable; even the person with what could be described as the ideal life deals with some form of adversity. The novel, Speak, and the short story, The Third and Final Continent, both use plot as a way to convey themes of hardship. Moreover, these texts both use symbolism in order to develop their themes as well. The Art of Resilience and Speak utilize characterization as a method of developing their respective themes. Speak, The Third and Final Continent, and The Art of Resilience each deal with the theme that all people must learn to cope with adverse situations.

Rich successfully uses strong images and an extended metaphor to establish a theme that shows that by re-examining a hurtful experience one can experience a rebirth of their